ProfessorJane Butler

Professor Jane Butler (BSc, PhD) is a Senior Principal Research Fellow and SpinalCure Fellow at The Kolling Institute, University of Sydney, Australia. She is internationally known for research on the neural control of respiration and on neurorehabilitation after spinal cord injury (SCI). She co-founded and leads the Spinal Cord Injury Research Collaborative (SCIRC), a team of researchers examining both fundamental and translational outcomes in the neural control of movement after SCI, with the aim to identify and develop novel clinical methods improve limb, trunk and respiratory motor function. She has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and has successfully attracted more than $27million funding over her career for both basic neurophysiology studies and clinical trials.